Word: insists
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...exert the kind of authority that presidential assistants have enjoyed in recent Administrations. Under Johnson, Kennedy and Eisenhower, the White House staff often served as a buffer between the President and his Cabinet, and even leeched off much of the Cabinet's power. Nixon's men insist that there will be no Sherman Adams, Harry Hopkins, McGeorge Bundy or Bill Moyers standing between Nixon and his statutory policymakers in the Cabinet. The White House staff, they add, will concern itself far more with running the headquarters than fighting the main governmental battles...
Both critics insist that college presidents should do more to break the ties that bind their schools to Government and business. But they do not suggest how to replace the vital advantages of Government-financed research that they disapprove of-the money for equipment and professors' salaries that might not be otherwise available. Instead, Ridgeway offers ethical safeguards. If colleges continue to operate as quasi-corporations, he says, they should be subject to public scrutiny, just as publicly owned businesses are. They must "cease being the firehouse on the corner answering all the alarms, many of them false...
...least 20 years," said Charles Barr, head of a group of 5,000 Republicans who policed the polls. In response, Mayor Daley suggested-not without cause-that reporters should investigate why, in the era of the voting machine, officials in some Republican-controlled precincts in Illinois still insist on using paper ballots...
...blame Jesus! Blame people who refuse the results of modern scholarship and insist on using an outdated version of the Bible...
...defender of such moves despite the Reserve Board's qualms, Camp argues that banks should be free to per form "any financial function that does not impair their solvency or liquidity." Fitting their plans to that prescription, bankers insist that because of their customers' changing needs they should have the power to offer more services related to banking. They envision affiliates for such activities as travel services, mutual funds, insurance, equipment leasing, bookkeeping and billing for other firms, and land development...